[virt-tools-list] No UEFI option in virt-manager 1.3

[Cole Robinson]

On 07/13/2016 03:14 PM, Anders Pitman wrote:
> On Ubuntu 16.04 you end up with:
> 
> /usr/share/qemu/OVMF.fd
> /usr/share/ovmf/OVMF.fd
> /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_CODE.fd
> /usr/share/OVMF/OVMF_VARS.fd
> 
> One of the OVMF.fd's is a link to the other but I don't recall which (I wiped
> the drive and installed Windows 10 for now. Have a new drive on the way to try
> kvm again).
> 
> I know for sure virt-manager 0.9.5 had a "Firmware" dropdown during
> installation that allowed the selection of UEFI, and I'm pretty sure it worked.
> 

Yeah that's strange... probably some custom patch on the ubuntu side.

> On a related note, is there a recommended platform for running kvm with the
> features I'm trying to get working? A lot of people seem to be using Arch and
> maybe Fedora. I would be fine with that, but I'm a little concerned about
> stability. The host will only be used for VM hosting purposes, so I really
> only care about virtualization features and stability. I can use guests if I
> need other specific software. So I guess my question is what's the best distro
> for keeping up with important kvm features but still being relatively stable?
> 

Personally I recommend Fedora, I think it's the distro that the largest chunk
of virt stack development is performed on.

- Cole

> //anders
> 
> On Wed, Jul 13, 2016 at 11:47 AM, Cole Robinson <crobinso at redhat.com
> <mailto:crobinso at redhat.com>> wrote:
> 
>     On 07/08/2016 10:05 PM, Anders Pitman wrote:
>     > Hi,
>     >
>     > My host machine is running Ubuntu 16.04 with libvirt 1.3.1. I've been
>     > administering my VMs using virt-manager over SSH from my laptop. I was using
>     > virt-manager 0.9.5, but noticed some discrepancies with most of the tutorials
>     > out there (host-passthrough wouldn't work) so downloaded 1.4. Ran into issues
>     > getting PyGobject 3 installed on my laptop (Ubuntu 14.04) so I stepped back to
>     > 1.3. This has been working well, but I noticed the option for the firmware
>     > dropdown where you can select UEFI isn't showing up anymore, and it's using
>     > SeaBIOS for all new VMs. I tried modifying /etc/libvirt/qemu.conf to make it
>     > point to OVMF_CODE.fd and OVMF_VARS.fd but that didn't help. Any ideas?
> 
>     Do you know what paths the ubuntu packages store the ovmf/uefi binaries at? I
>     don't use ubuntu so I don't know off hand.
> 
>     Was virt-manager 0.9.5 working with uefi? It shouldn't have, given how old
>     that is, but maybe ubuntu has custom patches or something
> 
>     - Cole
> 
>